Minutes of the 28 May 2009 Teleconference Austin-454 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. May 29 , 2009
Attendees
Andrew Josey, The Open Group
Don Cragun, PASC OR
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR
Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat
* ISO status
The latest communication from IEEE and ISO has been the designation
of the standard, there is a proposal to change it to
ISO/IEC/IEEE 9945 rather than ISO/IEC 9945/IEEE 1003.1.
There was some discussion over the ramifications, Andrew will
raise some questions for IEEE.
* Bugzilla
We continued discussing the new bug reporting system.
Mark hopes to make a update prior to the next meeting.
* Aardvark review
We picked up again on the latest rdvk reports.
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/
XSHbug3.txt ERN 36 langinfo.h Accept
XSHbug3.txt ERN 37 limits.h Accept as marked
We agreed to make the change as proposed and also to change the CX
Shading block as follows on line 8756-8757
Many of the symbols listed here are not defined by the ISO/IEC 9899:
1999 standard. Such symbols are not shown as CX shaded, except under
the heading "Numerical Limits".
XSHbug3.txt ERN 38 additional thread safe functions Open
We agreed that there is an issue here. Don agreed to take
an action to enumerate the changes.
XSHbug3.txt ERN 39 memchr Accept as marked below
A number of changes were agreed as follows
Change p1284 lines 42163-42164
In the DESCRIPTION remove "of the object" from
The memchr( ) function shall locate the first occurrence of c (converted
to an unsigned char) in the initial n bytes (each interpreted as unsigned
char) of the object pointed to by s.
In the RETURN VALUE section
The memchr( ) function shall return a pointer to the located byte,
or a null pointer if the byte does not occur in the object.
to
The memchr( ) function shall return a pointer to the located byte,
or a null pointer if the byte is not found.
Also Nick will let the C committee know about the issue
Add to DESCRIPTION
Implementations shall behave as if they read the memory byte by byte
from the beginning of the bytes pointed to by s and stop at the first
occurrence of c.
Next Steps
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The next call will be on June 4 at 16:00 UK time/08:00 Pacific
to carry on with the aardvark.
We will discuss AI-122
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